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It's also based on the answers people card-sorting partipants gave to "what are the top 3 things you come to the MIT Libraries website to do or find?"
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Considerations:
A. Navbars follow you wherever you go (on most pages) and serve as useful, quick ways to get to frequently used pages.
B. Categories on the home page have a dual purpose: 1) to show what the libraries are about and can do for you, and 2) they provide a quick way to get to frequently used pages.
... therefore.... should the home page categories always match exactly the 2nd level nav bars? (maybe, maybe not)
C. We may want to use this as an opportunity to emphasize some of the things we do for people that are beyond how they usually think of libraries. (personal content management, scholarly publishing support, managing data, etc).
Navbar draft 1
Search | Locations/Hours | Borrow/Request | Research Support | Recommended Tools | About Us
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